Editorial Board Member - JIID
Qingzhong Kong
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Kong graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry at Nanjing University, China, in 1987. He went on to earn an M.S. in Molecular Biology. In 1996, Dr. Kong completed a Ph.D. in Molecular Virology at the University of Massachusetts. From 1996 to 2000, he was a Research Associate in Molecular Immunology at Yale University, after which he joined the Department of Pathology as an assistant professor. Dr. Kong is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology and he has secondary appointments at the Department of Neurology and the National Center for Regenerative Medicine.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Development of gene/cell therapies against diabetes, cancer and other diseases using rAAV/non-viral DNA and muscle stem cells
- Public health risks of animal prions (Chronic Wasting Disease of elk and deer and atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy of cattle) and animal modeling of various human prion diseases (especially CJD)
- Roles of the normal cellular prion protein in the biology and pathology of skeletal muscle and brain
- Etiology of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) in human.
Other Editorial Board Members - JIID
Mario P. S. Chin
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Temple University
United States
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Temple University
United States
Huatao Guo
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
University of Missouri School of Medicine
United States
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
University of Missouri School of Medicine
United States
Ramesh C. Gupta
Professor of Chemistry
School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development (SASRD)
Nagaland University
India
School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development (SASRD)
Nagaland University
India
Jana Barlic-Dicen
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
United States
Department of Cell Biology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
United States
Lina H K LIM
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Department of Physiology
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Dayanand Bagdure
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Critical Care
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore
United States
Pediatric Critical Care
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore
United States
Olga S. Latinovic
Assistant Professor
Institute of Human Virology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
United States
Institute of Human Virology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
United States
